Chapter 1
Sophia
When I came to, I felt disoriented. My world rocked slightly and I felt vibrations go through my body. A soft, monotonous humming was in my ears. The spirit of a bad feeling hovered over me. Something had happened, my head just couldn’t give me an answer to the question of what. A pain in my arm was noticeable. I opened my eyes and slowly took in my surroundings. I was in Iwan's limousine. His bodyguards sat opposite me. Iwan was not here. A knowing first spread out in my head, then in my heart. He had been shot. I’d seen him go down. Then I had fainted when the limousine moved away from the scene at breakneck speed. How much time had passed? Was he still alive? I sat up jerkily as panic seized my heart with clawed hands.
"Stop that damn car!" I yelled out of my mind. "
